Re: (screen-) size... (was 770 price cut)

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From: Steve Hultquist (ssh_at_HSAnet.net)
Date: Mon Feb 09 1998 - 16:53:41 EST


Heh, heh, heh... Except that a 1280 screen is 1280x1024.... :-|

--On Monday, February 09, 1998, 4:44 PM +0000 "Robert Dewar"
<dewar_at_gnat.com> wrote:

> <<I have several older DOS apps which are indispensible to me. I could
replace
> some of them with their windows upgrades for a combined total of several
> thousand $$. This would give me no added functionality, possibly slow
> performance and create some backwards compatibility problems. I don't
consider
> the software broken - but, it necessarily uses bitmapped fonts, and was
> written at a time when Hercules Mono was the highest resolution out there.
>>>
>
> Note that once we get to 1280 x 960 screens, things look at lot better,
> because you can pixel double old 640 x 480 images.

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Steve Hultquist, Chief Technology Officer                       HSAnet
providing high-speed Internet access                 Boulder, Colorado
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